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Re: Policy question: web fonts in extra package?



On Tue, 2018-05-22 at 11:48 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Regarding TTF, I'd rather ask upstream if they prefer TTF over OTF
> fonts.
> Otherwise, I don't see a reason to install TTF fonts at all if OTF
> fonts are available.

I think historically this was needed because not all applications
supported OTF.  I'm not sure if there are still such applications
left...?


About splitting out WOFF: the only reason I can see for that is when
the font files are huge (e.g. because they have extensive Unicode
support in multiple styles) and people want to use only one format on a
(physical or virtual) system which has very limited disk space.

Obviously that doesn't apply to fonts-junction, and in case of other
fonts, people can always request it if necessary?


-- 
Jan Claeys


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